Aesop's Fables for Children

This book was especially republished to raise funds for Cecily's Fund

33% of the publishers profit from the sale of this book will be donated to Cecily's Fund.

A GREAT READ FOR KIDS!

Within this book lie 148 moral tales simplified for children to teach them wisdom and morals which have been passed down through millennia. Each tale is usually a page or less in length and is suffixed with a simple moral.

In addition there are over 100 beautiful, if not sumptuous, color illustrations from the famous illustrator Milo Winter (1888 1956), who also famously produced illustrations for editions of Arabian Nights, Alice in Wonderland, Gulliver's Travels, Tanglewood Tales (1913) and others.

Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, are a collection of moral tales and fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BC. However, there is another school of academic thought that believes the fables and proverbs of "Aesopic" form existed in both the ancient kingdoms of Sumer and Akkad, as early as the third millennium BC.

The book has been especially republished to help raise funds for the charity CECILIYs FUND assisting and supporting Zambian children orphaned by AIDS.

Excerpt from Aesop's Fables for Children

THE EAGLE AND THE JACKDAW

An Eagle, swooping down on powerful wings, seized a lamb in her talons and made off with it to her nest. A Jackdaw saw the deed, and his silly head was filled with the idea that he was big and strong enough to do as the Eagle had done. So with much rustling of feathers and a fierce air, he came down swiftly on the back of a large Ram. But when he tried to rise again he found that he could not get away, for his claws were tangled in the wool. And so far was he from carrying away the Ram, that the Ram hardly noticed he was there.

The Shepherd saw the fluttering Jackdaw and at once guessed what had happened. Running up, he caught the bird and clipped its wings. That evening he gave the Jackdaw to his children.

"What a funny bird this is!" they said laughing, "what do you call it, father?"

"That is a Jackdaw, my children. But if you should ask him, he would say he is an Eagle."

Do not let your vanity make you overestimate your powers.

Table of Contents for Aesop's Fables for Children

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

CONTENTS

ÆSOPs FABLES for CHILDREN

THE WOLF AND THE KID

THE TORTOISE AND THE DUCKS

THE YOUNG CRAB AND HIS MOTHER

THE FROGS AND THE OX

THE DOG, THE COCK, AND THE FOX

BELLING THE CAT

THE EAGLE AND THE JACKDAW

THE BOY AND THE FILBERTS

HERCULES AND THE WAGONER

THE TOWN MOUSE AND THE COUNTRY MOUSE

THE KID AND THE WOLF

THE FOX AND THE GRAPES

THE BUNDLE OF STICKS

THE WOLF AND THE CRANE

THE ASS AND HIS DRIVER

THE OXEN AND THE WHEELS

THE LION AND THE MOUSE

THE SHEPHERD BOY AND THE WOLF

THE GNAT AND THE BULL

THE PLANE TREE

THE FARMER AND THE STORK

THE SHEEP AND THE PIG

THE TRAVELLERS AND THE PURSE

THE FROGS WHO WISHED FOR A KING

THE OWL AND THE GRASSHOPPER

THE WOLF AND HIS SHADOW

THE OAK AND THE REEDS

THE RAT AND THE ELEPHANT

THE ASS CARRYING THE IMAGE

THE BOYS AND THE FROGS

THE CROW AND THE PITCHER

THE ANTS AND THE GRASSHOPPER

A RAVEN AND A SWAN

THE TWO GOATS

THE ASS AND THE LOAD OF SALT

THE LION AND THE GNAT

THE LEAP AT RHODES

THE COCK AND THE JEWEL

THE MONKEY AND THE CAMEL

THE WILD BOAR AND THE FOX

THE ASS, THE FOX, AND THE LION

THE BIRDS, THE BEASTS, AND THE BAT

THE LION, THE BEAR, AND THE FOX

THE WOLF AND THE LAMB

THE WOLF AND THE SHEEP

THE TRAVELLERS AND THE SEA

THE HARES AND THE FROGS

THE FOX AND THE STORK

THE WOLF AND THE LION

THE STAG AND HIS REFLECTION

THE PEACOCK

THE MICE AND THE WEASELS

THE WOLF AND THE LEAN DOG

THE DOG AND HIS MASTER'S DINNER

THE FOX AND THE LION

THE LION AND THE ASS

THE VAIN JACKDAW AND HIS BORROWED FEATHERS

THE LION AND THE ASS

THE MONKEY AND THE DOLPHIN

THE WOLF AND THE ASS

THE MONKEY AND THE CAT

THE DOGS AND THE FOX

THE RABBIT, THE WEASEL, AND THE CAT

THE DOGS AND THE HIDES

THE BEAR AND THE BEES

THE FOX AND THE LEOPARD

THE HERON

THE COCK AND THE FOX

THE DOG IN THE MANGER

THE WOLF AND THE GOAT

THE MULE

THE FOX AND THE GOAT

THE CAT, THE COCK, AND THE YOUNG MOUSE

THE ASS AND THE GRASSHOPPERS

THE WOLF AND THE SHEPHERD

THE PEACOCK AND THE CRANE

THE FARMER AND THE CRANES

THE SICK STAG

THE FARMER AND HIS SONS

THE TWO POTS

THE GOOSE AND THE GOLDEN EGG

THE FIGHTING BULLS AND THE FROG

THE MOUSE AND THE WEASEL

THE FARMER AND THE SNAKE

THE GOATHERD AND THE WILD GOATS

THE SPENDTHRIFT AND THE SWALLOW

THE DOG AND THE OYSTER

THE ASTROLOGER

THREE BULLOCKS AND A LION

MERCURY AND THE WOODMAN

THE CAT AND THE BIRDS

THE FROG AND THE MOUSE

THE FOX AND THE CRAB

THE SERPENT AND THE EAGLE

THE WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING

THE BULL AND THE GOAT

THE EAGLE AND THE BEETLE

THE OLD LION AND THE FOX

THE MAN AND THE LION

THE WOLF AND THE SHEPHERD

THE ASS AND THE LAP DOG

THE MILKMAID AND HER PAIL

THE BOY AND THE NETTLE

THE MISER

THE WOLF AND THE HOUSE DOG

THE GOATHERD AND THE GOAT

THE FOX AND THE HEDGEHOG

THE BAT AND THE WEASELS

THE QUACK TOAD

THE FOX WITHOUT A TAIL

THE MISCHIEVOUS DOG

THE ROSE AND THE BUTTERFLY

THE CAT AND THE FOX

THE OLD LION

THE FOX AND THE PHEASANTS

TWO TRAVELLERS AND A BEAR

THE FLIES AND THE HONEY

THE FOX AND THE MONKEY

THE MOTHER AND THE WOLF

THE EAGLE AND THE KITE

THE STAG, THE SHEEP, AND THE WOLF

THE ANIMALS AND THE PLAGUE

THE PORCUPINE AND THE SNAKES

THE SHEPHERD AND THE LION

THE DOG AND HIS REFLECTION

THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE

THE BEES AND WASPS, AND THE HORNET

THE LARK AND HER YOUNG ONES

THE CAT AND THE OLD RAT

THE FOX AND THE CROW

THE ASS AND ITS SHADOW

THE MILLER, HIS SON, AND THE ASS

THE SWALLOW AND THE CROW

THE ANT AND THE DOVE

THE MAN AND THE SATYR

THE WOLF, THE KID, AND THE GOAT

JUPITER AND THE MONKEY

THE LION, THE ASS, AND THE FOX

THE LION'S SHARE

THE MOLE AND HIS MOTHER

THE NORTH WIND AND THE SUN

THE HARE AND HIS EARS

THE WOLVES AND THE SHEEP

THE COCK AND THE FOX

THE ASS IN THE LION'S SKIN

THE FISHERMAN AND THE LITTLE FISH

THE FIGHTING COCKS AND THE EAGLE

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